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  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
  • cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
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